Power BI

Microsoft Power BI

Microsoft Power BI (Business Intelligence) is a business analytics solution that lets you visualize your data and share insights across your organization, or embed them in your app or website. It provides nontechnical business users with tools for aggregating, analyzing, visualizing and sharing data. Power BI’s user interface is fairly intuitive for users familiar with Excel. There is also Power BI Report Server for companies that must maintain their data and reports on premises.

The data models created from Power BI can be used in several ways for organizations, including telling stories through charts and data visualizations and examining “what if” scenarios within the data. Power BI reports can also answer questions in real time and help with forecasting to make sure departments meet business metrics. Power BI can also provide executive dashboards for administrators or managers, giving management more insight into how departments are doing.

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1. Benefits
   1. Artificial Intelligence 
      1. Users can access image recognition and text analytics in Power BI, create machine learning models.
   1. Hybrid deployment support 
      1. Built-in connectors that allow Power BI tools to connect with a number of different data sources.
   1. Quick Insights 
      1. Allow users to create subsets of data and automatically apply analytics to that information.
   1. Common data model support
      1. Support the common data model allows the use of a standardized and extensible collection of data schemas.
   1. Customization 
      1. Allows developers to change the appearance of default visualization and reporting tools and import new tools into the platform.
   1. Self-service data prep 
      1. Using Power Query, business analysts can ingest, transform, integrate and enrich big data into the Power BI web service. Ingested data can be shared across multiple Power BI models, reports and dashboards.
2. Who uses Power BI
   1. Self-service BI tool that brings data analytics to employees, it’s mostly used by data analysts and business intelligence professionals who create the data models before disseminating reports throughout the organization.
   1. Used by both department reps and management, with reports and forecasts created to aid sales and marketing reps, while also providing data for management on how the department or individual employees are progressing toward their goals.
   1. Offers an admin portal for administrators to help configure the implementation of Power BI, as well as usage monitoring and licenses.